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Big Bird is a character on the children's television show ''Sesame Street''. Officially performed by Caroll Spinney since 1969, he is an eight-foot two-inch (249 cm) tall bright primrose-yellow bird.〔Shalom M. Fisch, Lewis Bernstein, ("Formative Research Revealed: Methodological and Process Issues in Formative Research" ). In Shalom M. Fisch, Rosemarie T. Truglio (eds.), ''"G" is for "Growing": Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street''. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. ISBN 0-8058-3394-3. pp 39–40.〕 He can roller skate, ice skate, dance, sing, write poetry, draw, and even ride a unicycle. But despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one big long word (from the song called "ABC-DEF-GHI," pronounced "ab-keddef-gajihkel-monop-quristuv-wixyz"), pondering what it could ever mean. He lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and has a teddy bear named Radar. In 2000, Big Bird was named a Living Legend by the United States Library of Congress.〔http://www.loc.gov/about/awards-and-honors/living-legends/big-bird/〕 ==Performing Big Bird== As Muppeteer Caroll Spinney has aged, the show has gradually started to train new performers to play Big Bird. These apprentices include both Rick Lyon in the opening theme song of the show's 33rd season on, and Matt Vogel in the show's Journey to Ernie segment. Caroll Spinney was sick during the taping of a few first-season episodes, so Daniel Seagren performed Big Bird in those episodes. He also performed Big Bird when he appeared on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' in 1969 and on ''The Hollywood Squares'' in the 1970s. According to ''The Story of Jim Henson'' by Stephanie St. Pierre, the costume was built for Jim Henson to perform, but when Henson tried it on, Kermit Love, who had built the costume, did not think that Henson was walking like a bird is supposed to walk, and so Henson decided not to perform Big Bird. Frank Oz was offered the part, but since he hated performing full-body characters, he turned down the job.〔Stephanie St. Pierre. ''The Story of Jim Henson, Creator of the Muppets''. New York: Dell Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-440-40453-3.〕 Director Jon Stone, in the 1994 documentary ''The World of Jim Henson'', revealed that the Big Bird costume actually did not have any openings that would allow the actor to see; a small television was strapped to the actor's chest to allow him to navigate.〔Jon Stone, Director/Writer. ''The World of Jim Henson'' (1994)〕 The camera was set up for Spinney by technician Walt Rauffer, on the suggestion of director Bob Myhrum. Rauffer rigged the camera to a harness strapped to Spinney's chest; Spinney reported that they called the camera "the electronic bra". During instances where Spinney (or to a lesser extent, Matt Vogel) is performing on location and cannot get a video feed, a small hole is made in the costume to allow him to see. In such cases, Big Bird must wear a necktie to cover the hole. This can also be seen in the ''Sesame Street Live'' shows. Likewise, during instances where Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch (both performed by Spinney) are to be in a scene together, Jim Martin operates Oscar unless Matt Vogel is operating Big Bird, in which cases Oscar is performed by Spinney as usual. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Bird」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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